| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 27069 |
| QUOTATION: | Is it a fact—or have I dreamt it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), U.S. author. Clifford Pyncheon, in The House of the Seven Gables, ch. 17 (1851). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Hawthorne Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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